'''Planetary Previews''' was a science fiction '[[zine]] produced in Atlanta, Georgia from 1988 to 1994 (and intermittently thereafter) by Julian T. Reid, III, Cynthia Middleton, and Sara Amis. It included science fiction, art, articles, and political commentary, the latter mostly of a green-[[anarchism|anarcho]]-communist bent.

Short stories by Gregory Nicoll, Brad Strickland, and Brad Linaweaver, as well as by less-well-known Georgia science fiction writers, appeared in its pages. ''Planetary Previews'' also published original art by Sara Amis, Jon Skoglund, and others.

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''Planetary Previews'' was produced in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. from 1981 to 1993. It included science fiction, art, articles and political commentary, the latter mostly of a green-Jeffersonian Antifederalist bent.

The readership numbered in the hundreds and were spread across four continents: the U.S., Canada, the UK, the U.S.S.R., Australia and Japan. The zine was also enshrined in the personal Science Fiction museum of "the world's most famous Fan" Forrest J. Ackerman, editor of [[Imagination!]] and co-editor, with [[Myrtle Douglas (Morojo)]], of [[Voice of the Imagi-Nation]], and [[Novacious]].

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Sara Amis is now a professional author and an instructor at the University of Georgia; Berl Boykin has long been part of the Atlanta arts, theater, and political scene. He is notable among other things for helping to organize the first Gay Pride event in Atlanta in 1971, for which he was recognized by the Georgia General Assembly.

Latest revision as of 21:29, 10 March 2013

Planetary Previews was produced in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. from 1981 to 1993. It included science fiction, art, articles and political commentary, the latter mostly of a green-Jeffersonian Antifederalist bent.

Contributors of short stories included Sara Amis, Gregory Nicoll, Brad Strickland and Brad Linaweaver, as well as many other science fiction writers.

The readership numbered in the hundreds and were spread across four continents: the U.S., Canada, the UK, the U.S.S.R., Australia and Japan. The zine was also enshrined in the personal Science Fiction museum of "the world's most famous Fan" Forrest J. Ackerman, editor of Imagination! and co-editor, with Myrtle Douglas (Morojo), of Voice of the Imagi-Nation, and Novacious.

Sara Amis is now a professional author and an instructor at the University of Georgia; Berl Boykin has long been part of the Atlanta arts, theater, and political scene. He is notable among other things for helping to organize the first Gay Pride event in Atlanta in 1971, for which he was recognized by the Georgia General Assembly.